Title of the first text: 壹本南靈科 [yiben nanling ke]. External cover title: 一本南靈科 [yiben nanling ke ]. Instructions to lead the Keau Hu Man to bring the particular dead – by names - from the Purgatory to the ceremony/house. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 106 folios. Date(s)...
This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: [敕壇科] [[chitan ke]]. Text to open ceremony and set up the altar. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 62 folios.
This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 一本南相科 [Yiben nanxiang ke]. Ceremony to hold an audience with the gods. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 78 folios.
Title of the first text: 一本小百解秘 [yiben xiao baijie mi ]. External cover title: 一本黃泉秘語 小百解 [yiben huangquan miyu xiao baijie ]. Instructions about various magic for protection against disasters threatening the local community, and other exorcistic healing rituals. Extent and format of original...
Title of the first text: 壹本開山科 [yiben kaishan ke ]. External cover title: 壹本開山科共唱功曹在頭 [yiben kaishan ke gongchang gongcao zai tou ]. Kaishan: Instructions to “open the forest” so a new village can be built. Gongcao: Instructions to send the deities of Messengers to inform and invite all the de...
This manuscript has no internal cover title for the first text. The given title is for the title on the outer cover. External cover title: 一本接聖大獻科 [yiben jiesheng daxian ke ]. Instruction to direct all Celestial deities invited to the ceremony to occupy their seats at the main altar and provid...
This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 壹本朝天解冤科 [Yiben chaotian jieyuan ke]. Ceremony to make confession to heaven. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 太歲頂丑年四月下旬廿六日酉時. Calendar note: Stem-branches system or 60-y...
Title of the first text: 一本小百解 [yiben xiaobaijie ]. External cover title: 壹本冊百解秘語 [yiben ce baijie miyu ]. Instructions about various magic for protection against disasters threatening the local community, and other exorcistic healing rituals. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 太歲乙亥?正月十五. Ca...
Title of the first text: 清醮秘語 [qingjiao miyu ]. External cover title: 齋醮秘語 [zhaijiao miyu ]. Magic to transform the altars into ritual payments which are aimed to the deities invited to occupy seats in the altars. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 172 folios. Date(s) claime...
Title of the first text: 壹本受戒秘語 [yiben shoujie miyu ]. External cover title: 受戒秘 [shoujie mi ]. Miscellaneous instructions of initiation ritual for the ordination of the new Daoist disciple. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 74 folios. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 大清光...